Impact of long-term conventional and organic farming on the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Oecologia

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 574-583

  Oehl, Fritz ^a   Sieverding, Ewald ^b   Mäder, Paul ^c   Dubois, David ^d   Ineichen, Kurt ^a   Boller, Thomas ^a   Wiemken, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

^d Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Plant nutrition; Soil microbiology; Sustainable agriculture; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; ORGANIC FARMING; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA;

AGRICULTURE; HUMANS; MYCORRHIZAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ACAULOSPORA; ACAULOSPORA LONGULA; ACAULOSPORACEAE; FUNGI; GLOMUS; LANCEOLATA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; LONGULA; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; SCUTELLOSPORA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

EID: 1642360856     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1458-2     Document Type: Article

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